{"id":41624,"date":"2015-07-01T21:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41624"},"modified":"2015-07-01T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:39:51","slug":"misty-copeland-is-first-black-dancer-to-lead-us-ballet-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41624","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland is first black dancer to lead US ballet group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33330870\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland is first black dancer to lead US ballet group<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33330870\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/FB3C\/production\/_83961346_533e9d6e-b422-430a-aef4-f2d96a47baf8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Misty Copeland has become a breakout star for ballet<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Ballet_Theatre\" target=\"_blank\">The American Ballet Theatre<\/a> has named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Misty_Copeland\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a> its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principal_dancer\" target=\"_blank\">principal dancer<\/a> &#8211; the first time a black ballerina has held the prestigious role.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ms Copeland, 32, made her debut this month, starring in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swan_Lake\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Swan Lake<\/em><\/a> in New York, one of the most coveted roles in ballet.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Ms Copeland has found fame outside of the ballet world.<\/p>\n<p>She has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZY0cdXr_1MA\" target=\"_blank\">appeared in commercials<\/a> and TV shows and wrote a best-selling memoir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t had a ballet dancer who has broken through to popular culture like this since <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Baryshnikov\" target=\"_blank\">Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/a>,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyperron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Perron<\/a>, an author and former editor of <em>Dance Magazine<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-33330870\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misty Copeland is first black dancer to lead US ballet group BBC News 2015-07-01 Misty Copeland has become a breakout star for ballet The American Ballet Theatre has named Misty Copeland its principal dancer &#8211; the first time a black ballerina has held the prestigious role. Ms Copeland, 32, made her debut this month, starring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[20353,19921,8597,6725,19922],"class_list":["post-41624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-ballet-theatre","tag-ballet","tag-bbc-news","tag-dance","tag-misty-copeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}